Academy Award-vinner Matt Damon er på flukt igjen som Jason Bourne, den tidligere CIA-trenede og perfekte leiemorderen, i denne intelligente og spennende actionthrilleren. Bourne, som lider av hukommelsestap, har lagt sin voldelige fortid bak seg og lever et normalt liv sammen med kjæresten Marie. Men planene hans for et fredfylt liv faller i grus når han så vidt slipper unna et drapsforøk. En ukjent fiende er nå op jakt etter Bourne, som beviser at han verken er et lett mål eller en person hvis evner, besluttsomhet og seiglivethet ikke må undervurderes. "The Bourne Supremacy" er en sterk og gripende film med nervepirrende biljakter, og er en av de mest intelligente, spennende og actionspekkede thrillers de siste årene.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.
Neo. Trinity. Morpheus. De og andre helter står på randen til seier eller tilintetgjørelse i den episke krigen mot maskinene i det overveldende siste kapittelet av Matrix-trilogien. For Neo betyr det å reise dit intet menneske har våget seg – inn i hjertet av Machine City og inn i en verdensomveltende konfrontasjon med det mange ganger sterkere forræderprogrammet Smith.
Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto the table.
Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump into the blanket.
It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Finally, he goes to bed and falls asleep, but ballet dominates even his dreams. He sees two dancers who seem to come right into his room as they perform, and that's just the beginning.
Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
While working near a psychiatric clinic, an electrician is struck by an accident at the very moment he sees a woman on the other side of a fence. Because of the electric shock, he ends up in the hospital, where he gets accustomed to the everyday life of the patients. In order to return to his previous life, he goes through the process of world creation, like a god.
"Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.
A group of friends try to defeat an evil king, and meet some quirky characters along the way.
A doomsday pepper is surprised to find a mysterious box appear in his living room with no trace as to how it could've gotten there.
King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy stepping down a staircase, followed by their escort, before climbing into a horse-drawn carriage.
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.